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Posted August 27, 2014
Cause there's no business like show-business!

Our DRM-Free approach to digital distribution has been the foundation of GOG.com since day one and we're convinced it is now firmly rooted in the gaming industry landscape. More and more users start to expect and demand the digital content they paid for to be free from any kind of restrictive mechanisms that limit access to their collections and get in the way of enjoyment. We think this is a good time to take the next step in our quest to make digital entertainment better for everyone. Today we set out to spread our DRM-Free ideas across the movie industry! That's right: GOG.com now offers DRM-Free movies.

Our goal is to offer you cinema classics as well as some all-time favorite TV series with no DRM whatsoever, for you to download and keep on your hard drive or stream online whenever you feel like it. We talked to most of the big players in the movie industry and we often got a similar answer: "We love your ideas, but … we do not want to be the first ones. We will gladly follow, but until somebody else does it first, we do not want to take the risk". DRM-Free distribution is not a concept their lawyers would accept without hesitation. We kind of felt that would be the case and that it's gonna take patience and time to do it, to do it, to do it right. That's quite a journey ahead of us, but every gamer knows very well that great adventures start with one small step. So why not start with something that feels very familiar? We offer you a number of gaming and internet culture documentaries - all of them DRM-Free, very reasonably priced, and presenting some fascinating insight into topics close to a gamer's heart. Now, what do we have in store for you?

- There's a whole new Movie Catalog for you to browse!
- All the movies we sell are priced at $5.99 (that's a launch promo price for a few of them), and we aim to have that as the main price point for most of our future releases
- Two of the movies - The Art of Playing and TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard are available for FREE, so that you can test our new movie distribution features
- Most of our movies are in Full HD 1080p quality, some in 720p. With those of you with limited bandwidth or download quota in mind, we also supply much lighter 576p versions.
- Apart from downloading your movies you have the option to watch them streaming online, right here on GOG.com
- GOG.com is famous for its bonus goodies - each movie will come with as many of them as we can muster
- You can expect subsequent movie releases each week

That's it. GOG.com Movies is a go, time to get some popcorn!
Posted August 27, 2014
I had to come here to see if this was a joke after I saw it elsewhere.

Like, I'm not mad or anything, but it's just kind of strange.
Aside from resolution, is there any other technical information about the movies available (bit rate, type, etc)?
Posted August 27, 2014
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jcoa: http://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/movie_specific_forums
It seems there's to be one forum for the whole film section: http://www.gog.com/forum/movies
Posted August 27, 2014
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VanishedOne: It seems there's to be one forum for the whole film section: http://www.gog.com/forum/movies
Thanks for pointing it out.
Posted August 27, 2014
I'm afraid I need to be educated here.

1. Who buys movies? Don't the vast majority rent them? Or for that matter, stream them?

2. Who the hell pays 7.49 for Indie Game: the Movie? O_o...And that's half off! I can rent it for $2 at the local video store.

3. People like to collect games, books or music. Very few people collect movies. The majority of the time, we watch movies once and then move on. This makes the high price points make even less sense.

4. This is a highly competitive space, with the likes of Amazon and Net Flicks, both of whom offer rentals for far less than the prices listed here.

I was hoping GOG would have branched out into music or books. But movies? Good lord, if they thought games were pirated a lot... So yeah, someone please tell why this is a profitable idea on GOG's part because I'm somewhat baffled by this.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by Garrison72
Posted August 27, 2014
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Garrison72: I'm afraid I need to be educated here.

1. Who buys movies? Don't the vast majority rent them? Or for that matter, stream them?

2. Who pays 7.49 for Indie Game: the Movie? And that's half off!

3. People like to collect games, books or music. Very few people collect movies. the vast majority of the time, we watch movies once and then move on. this makes the high price points make even less sense.

4. This is a highly competitive space, with the likes of Amazon and Net Flicks, who both offer rentals for far less than the prices listed here.

I was hoping GOG would have branched out into music or books. But movies? Good lord, if they thought games were pirated a lot... So yeah, someone please tell why this is a profitable idea on GOG's part because I'm somewhat baffled by this.
I think you would be surprised about people who collect movies. In fact, I'd say there are a lot more than you think there are, myself included. I'm a movie buff, and I love DVD/Blu-Ray collecting. The difference for me is that games are typically much more expensive (and time consuming) than movies. It's not hard for me to grab a hard copy of a movie for $10 or less on amazon, but games can be all over the place price-wise and compatibility with OS's is sketchy with hard copies of PC games. I look at the addition to movies here with total indifference. I like owning my movies, games too for that matter, but PC games are much harder to acquire/run than films are, especially older ones. I am a little baffled too. I, like many others, feel like game soundtracks would have made more sense. It almost looks like this a cover for the fact that they are losing games. Hopefully this is not a trend.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by Ultra_DTA
Posted August 27, 2014
I just spent about 30 minutes posting the current deal and mention of the freebie movies on SlickDeals:
http://slickdeals.net/f/7164130-gog-pc-download-up-to-80-off-last-chance-sale-drm-free

I hope it will attract some extra attention to the sales and GOG in general.

If there is anything I've forgotten let me know and I'll edit the post.
Posted August 27, 2014
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Garrison72: I'm afraid I need to be educated here.

1. Who buys movies? Don't the vast majority rent them? Or for that matter, stream them?

2. Who the hell pays 7.49 for Indie Game: the Movie? O_o...And that's half off! I can rent it for $2 at the local video store.

3. People like to collect games, books or music. Very few people collect movies. The majority of the time, we watch movies once and then move on. This makes the high price points make even less sense.

4. This is a highly competitive space, with the likes of Amazon and Net Flicks, both of whom offer rentals for far less than the prices listed here.

I was hoping GOG would have branched out into music or books. But movies? Good lord, if they thought games were pirated a lot... So yeah, someone please tell why this is a profitable idea on GOG's part because I'm somewhat baffled by this.
Who collects movies? I have a few hundred movies in my collection.
Posted August 27, 2014
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Sabin_Stargem: Is this a decent message?

I often watch your reviews, and bought your first DVD some time ago - but honestly, I prefer buying my media in digital format. Would it be possible for the content of the DVDs to be sold through a digital distributor, such as GOG?

My reason for promoting GOG? Well, it has to do with preventing companies from controlling a customer's content - such as Amazon removing books from a person's Kindle, for instance. I feel that the best way to oppose DRM is through businesses and customers proving that such methods are unnecessary. GOG is dedicated to selling DRM-free products, allowing the consumer to own what they buy.

Financially supporting both your work and DRM-free is important to me. It is my hope to someday be the proud owner of your works.

May you have a fine day. :)

http://www.gog.com/movies

welovemovies@gog.com
You are replying to me?
Yeah, I think that's a fine email to Mr. Rolfe.
Maybe post comments in cinemassacre as well!
Posted August 27, 2014
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Garrison72: I'm afraid I need to be educated here.

1. Who buys movies? Don't the vast majority rent them? Or for that matter, stream them?

2. Who the hell pays 7.49 for Indie Game: the Movie? O_o...And that's half off! I can rent it for $2 at the local video store.

3. People like to collect games, books or music. Very few people collect movies. The majority of the time, we watch movies once and then move on. This makes the high price points make even less sense.

4. This is a highly competitive space, with the likes of Amazon and Net Flicks, both of whom offer rentals for far less than the prices listed here.

I was hoping GOG would have branched out into music or books. But movies? Good lord, if they thought games were pirated a lot... So yeah, someone please tell why this is a profitable idea on GOG's part because I'm somewhat baffled by this.
Count me in as part of the minority ( ? ) then, as I have a pretty big collection of movies on DVD, so I'm quite interested in this new development here at GOG. Or I will be, once they have a greater, more interesting selection available.

As for the competition, I'd say GOG's main advantage is once again their goal to supply media 100% free of DRM measures. So once you buy a movie, it's yours to watch whenever, wherever and as many times as you like, on any device compatible with the file type. Sounds pretty good to me.
Posted August 27, 2014
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djdarko: I just spent about 30 minutes posting the current deal and mention of the freebie movies on SlickDeals:
http://slickdeals.net/f/7164130-gog-pc-download-up-to-80-off-last-chance-sale-drm-free

I hope it will attract some extra attention to the sales and GOG in general.

If there is anything I've forgotten let me know and I'll edit the post.
Hey, nice job with that topic!
So slick.
Posted August 27, 2014
I decided to get Once Upon Atari, I've been meaning to see it since it was originally released more than a decade ago but there simply wasn't a convenient way to obtain it until now. The system GOG has in place for streaming is very impressive and it even work's on my Wii U's internet browser, so viewing my purchase on my television was easy. I can't wait to see this new site feature branch off to include other types of films or even tv series. Great addition.
Posted August 27, 2014
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Shimejibr: You are replying to me?
Yeah, I think that's a fine email to Mr. Rolfe.
Maybe post comments in cinemassacre as well!
Thank you. :)

I often have confidence issues with my work, so it is good to have an encouraging word or two. I have sent the letter to Linkara, and Rolfe is next.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by Sabin_Stargem
Posted August 27, 2014
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Sabin_Stargem: Is this a decent message?
Is this to get the AVGN DVDs on GOG?

Yeah it sounds like a great message.
Posted August 27, 2014
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Garrison72: I'm afraid I need to be educated here.

1. Who buys movies? Don't the vast majority rent them? Or for that matter, stream them?

2. Who the hell pays 7.49 for Indie Game: the Movie? O_o...And that's half off! I can rent it for $2 at the local video store.

3. People like to collect games, books or music. Very few people collect movies. The majority of the time, we watch movies once and then move on. This makes the high price points make even less sense.

4. This is a highly competitive space, with the likes of Amazon and Net Flicks, both of whom offer rentals for far less than the prices listed here.

I was hoping GOG would have branched out into music or books. But movies? Good lord, if they thought games were pirated a lot... So yeah, someone please tell why this is a profitable idea on GOG's part because I'm somewhat baffled by this.
Nothing you say makes any sense to me...'cept for point #2. I have no idea who would pay any money for Indie Game the Movie :P
Otherwise, I have to say that Amazon has proved hugely disappointing to me, and Netflicks typically forces one to rely on ISPs to do their jobs. You're apparently from the US, so you should understand some amount of my concern regarding our most common ISPs (they suck).
Many people still buy movies, and digital movies present the attraction of requiring much less physical space. At the same time, all physical mediums wear out surprisingly quickly. There are several movies that Netflicks cannot stream, and which sometimes arrive chipped, cut, or otherwise damaged from the mailing process. As formats advance, some titles outright fall through the cracks, and will never be seen again if you don't collect a copy yourself. DRM makes the moving and maintaining of digital format a chore, while torrenting ensures that no one involved will see any benefit from the production.
Many of the sites that offer said movies also employ really annoying DRM, with Amazon being my least favorite. I'm guessing it's the main reason why so many people choose to torrent instead; they want convenience without having to jump through stupid hoops. Some people also don't want to spend any money, but that's a personal problem.

I have to admit, I don't really expect this to work. The fact that GOG is trying is actually blowing my mind a little bit.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by N0w3gg
Posted August 27, 2014
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N0w3gg: I have to admit, I don't really expect this to work. The fact that GOG is trying is actually blowing my mind a little bit.
I absolutely positively expect this to work. If not on GOG, it will become the dominant distribution vehicle somewhere and everybody else will have to follow suit.

People said DRM free music was impossible, just 5 years ago. Now virtually all online music sales is DRM free. Also, DRM free video is already thriving from the industry that is typically the front runner in video distribution, porn.

Hollywood will take a while to get on board, because they are set in their old paranoia. NOBODY is more paranoid when it comes to DRM than Hollywood, except maybe for the companies that make their entire living from DRM, like the ACSS people. They are as bad as Securom and the game DRM people. They make their living selling a product that doesn't actually work and causes inconvenience to paying customers.

But in the long run, the best product wins, and DRM free is just plain better.

Also, I disagree with the point that nobody collects movies. I have 3 TB of hard drive space on a video server so I can collect movies without taking up the space of disks. If I could download DRM free movies for everything, I would save all the time ripping disks, and would be a HUGE customer.

$.02.
Post edited August 27, 2014 by barleyguy
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